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Lower Palaeolithic stone scraper
An exceptionally fine transverse scraper with scalar retouch along edge. The piece is made on a glacially scratched pebble, which still has about 50% of its cortex on the dorsal surface.
The Neanderthals used scrapers to clean fat from animal skins.
WA_SC 1.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
87.93H/1.D4335
Find Information
Site Name: Pontnewydd Cave, St Asaph
Grid Reference: SJ 0155 7106
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1987
Notes: Lower Breccia; K8NE
Measurements
length / mm:70.3
width / mm:59.6
thickness / mm:20.0
weight / g:77.3
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